On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:52:37PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I don't see the use case yet. Why would someone want to build > the plugins without the rsyslogd binary? Does it actually work > if you mix different versions of plugins and rsyslogd? If > someone is interested in only a specific plugin, why not use > "make -C plugins/foo"?
It's just a convenience feature. In FreeBSD, we have separate ports for core and each plugin. At present, each plugin has to build rsyslogd all over again. From now on, it can just require the core port and save all the wasted build-time. I'm sure there are other ways to do it (like the one you mentioned), but is there a merit in arguing which one's the best? _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
